5G is so passé
The race to build 6G is on—or, at least, the race to start selling the idea to Washington.
June 2022
Are states ready to close the US digital divide?
Through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), every state will receive at least $100 million to start via the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. Allocation of this much federal money to states for a specific objective without a long-standing local department or agency in place to ensure the funds are deployed wisely is rare. Many states do not have a dedicated broadband team. If they do, it is often staffed by just a few people who are tucked inside another agency or staffed by a third party.
VPN provider pulls out of India over push to ‘limit internet freedom’
An order by Indian regulators requiring Internet companies to store their users’ real names and track their usage history has alarmed digital privacy advocates and virtual private network providers, which have begun to pull out of the country in protest. ExpressVPN, a leading virtual private network firm based in the British Virgin Islands, said that it would shut down its servers in India.
TDS Telecom to build high-speed fiber internet network in New Berlin, Wisconsin (TDS Telecommunications)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 06/02/2022 - 15:21Minnesota Announces Historic Funding for Broadband Expansion
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) that will award $95 million in broadband grants across the state, applications must be submitted by August 4, 2022 at 4:00 pm. Building on appropriations from both the 2021 and 2022 legislative sessions, this grant round contains the highest-ever amount of funding for the Border-to-Border Broadband Infrastructure grant program. Funding from two sources – state and federal – can be used to reimburse for up to half the cost of the broadband infrastructure deployed.
When it comes to online speech, how should society weigh the harms associated with disinformation and other hurtful content with the risks and potential chilling effects of government intervention? In a recent study, Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation examined a segment of the electorate whose attitudes are less heard in today’s partisan debates, but that may offer a glimpse into our digital future: young Americans.
Iowa Communications Network Upgrades Core Network to 100GB (Iowa Communications Network)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/02/2022 - 14:58Podcast: Ten Billion in Federal Broadband Funding is Available Through the Capital Projects Fund (Broadband Bunch)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/02/2022 - 14:57RightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age